Sinai rejoins anti-Israeli resistance front

The Sinai Peninsula has rejoined the Arab and Islamic
Resistance as this great awakening spreads inexorably across the region
toppling, Western imposed security states and replacing them with governments
of greater popular legitimacy.

Egypt and other countries in the region are contributing to
righting the historic wrong done to the Palestinian people as millions around
the World are employing an increasing variety of resistance strategies in solidarity
with this region’s central cause of liberating Palestine from the crumbling but
ultra-violent Zionist colonial project.

Historically, the 23,000 sq. mile triangular Sinai Peninsula has been an area
of Resistance against a series of occupiers and despots since it was joined to
Egypt during in Mamluk Sultanate (1260-1517) when the Ottoman sultan, Selim the
Grim, won the Battles of Marj Dabiq and al-Raydaniyya, and added Egypt to the
Ottoman Empire.

Following the establishment of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty's rule over the rest of
Egypt in 1805, the Ottoman Porte, faced with increasing resistance from Sinai,
transferred administration of the restive Peninsula to the Egyptian government,
by this time under the control of the colonial power, the United Kingdom. The
British occupied Egypt since 1882 and imposed the border in an almost straight
line from Rafah on the Mediterranean to Taba on the Gulf of Aqaba which has
remained the eastern border of Egypt. At the beginning of the 1948 Arab-Israeli
War, Egyptian forces invaded Palestine from Sinai to support the Palestinian
Resistance in their struggle against the imposed entity of Israel.

Last week’s Sinai operation by “terrorists in Bedouin
clothing” against the occupiers of Palestine resulted in the deaths of 16
Egyptian guards protecting the Israeli border as well as several of the
Fedayeen, signals again that the Sinai Peninsula has returned to its historic
role in confronting colonialism on Egypt’s border. The Egyptian people, if not
yet fully their leaders, are returning to their historic struggle to liberate
Palestine.

The regime of former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak would
purposefully undermine the relationship between the Egyptian and Palestinian
people. However, over the past 18 months, much of the Sinai has become more
Resistance oriented, as police stations in the Sinai were dismantled, the gas
line with Israel repeated severed, and Bedouin tribes and others began to
stockpile weapons arriving from Libya and from Israel’s black market and elsewhere.
The area is becoming a major Resistance base with fighters vowing to repel any
attempt by the US and Israel to retain control.

No proof positive has been proffered to support a number of claims being made
regarding those responsible for the Sinai attacks and other recent attacks
against Israeli installations that number more than 30 just since last year’s
Tahrir revolution.

A spokesman for the Hamas government has claimed that the Sinai attack was an
Israeli “attempt to tamper with Egyptian security and drive a wedge between the
Egyptians and the residents of the Gaza Strip.” Tarek Zumar, a spokesman for
the group, claimed that Israel was behind all recent terror attacks against the
Egyptians “because it wants to make changes along its border with Egypt.” The
day after the attack, and relying on its own intelligent sources, Hamas
announced that: "This crime can be attributed to the Mossad, which has
been seeking to abort the revolution since its inception and the proof of this
is that it gave instructions to its Zionist citizens in Sinai to depart
immediately a few days ago."

An American critic of Israel’s influence over the US Congress, who is an
Assistant Staff Director on a Congressional Committee, emailed that “We are
looking into what Israeli leaders knew about the Sinai attack and when they
knew it, but no definite responsibility for this operation has been
established.” The Muslim Brotherhood has also blamed Mossad for the attack.

One of the reasons the Egyptian public is increasingly calling for abolishing
or at least re-negotiating the “Treaty of Shame”, as the Camp David agreement
is commonly known, is that Egyptian security forces in Sinai are not enough to
protect the borders. Under Camp David’s “Peace Agreement”, it is Israel, and
not the Egyptian government who determines how many Egyptians security
personnel can stand guard at Egypt’s border.

On 8/4/12, Egypt’s new pro-Palestinian President, Mohamed Morsi, responded to
the attack by sacking the pro-Israeli intelligence chief Murad Muwafi, as well
as the governor of Northern Sinai Abdel Wahab Mabrouk. The same day, Morsi
ordered his defense minister to relieve the head of the country’s military
police, as his spokesman said to “turn a page” in the Palestinian struggle and
also as a confidence building move in the face of a predicted Zionist campaign
to blame the Muslim Brotherhood for the attack. There has been a relentless
campaign by Zionist leaders since Mubarak’s ouster, to weaken the Egyptian
public’s determination to isolate Israel and cancel their government’s
relations with the occupiers of Palestine.

Supporters of Morsi’s rival in the presidential election, Ahmed Shafiq, a
former air force commander, have called for Egyptians to rise up against the
Brotherhood and President Morsi as a result of the Sinai operation. Such
attacks underscore the divide between new pro-Palestinian government and the
military, which continues to hold enormous political power and has limited the
president's authority.

The Resistance operation comes only a week after Palestinian Prime Minister
Ismail Haniyeh made a rare visit to Egypt to meet with Mohamed Morsi to discuss
easing travel restrictions on Gaza imposed by Israel's siege, restrictions
respected by Mubarak for years. That meeting, coupled with Morsi meeting both
Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas last month,
resulted in the opening the Rafah border for 12 hrs a day and increasing the
daily limit on passengers from Gaza to 1,500. By opening the border, Morsi was
following through on a campaign promise he made during the run-up to Egypt's
hotly contested election. With the advent of the Arab Spring, a number of
Egyptian pro Resistance organizations demanded the complete opening of the
Rafah crossing to all traffic, including commercial. During his campaign Morsi
stated that “the time has come to open the Rafah crossing to traffic 24 hours a
day and all year round.”

Unfortunately, following the most recent operation, the Rafah crossing has been
indefinitely closed just like it was under the deposed Egyptian president which
will cause great hardship to Gazans and amounts to nothing less than Israeli
style “collective punishment” as claimed by Musa Abu Marzouk, a senior Hamas
official.

As one Gazan young woman, Rana Baker, a member of the Gaza-based BDS organizing
committee recently observed, “It is worth recalling here the official Egyptian
stance on the murder of two Egyptian security guards in an Israeli raid along
the Israeli-Egyptian border last year. Not one Egyptian helicopter took off in
search of the assailants and not one bullet was aimed at “suspects” from the
Israeli side. Not only did the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) bury
the incident as if it had never happened, but it went as far as to quell
Egyptian protestors at the Israeli embassy in Cairo almost a year ago today.
Days later, the SCAF erected a high wall around the embassy to “protect” it
against “extremists.”

The Gaza Strip has now been closed off, as it was during the time of Hosni Mubarak.
The siege is now expected to intensify following the indefinite closure of the
Rafah and Karm Abu-Salem border crossings. The siege is now expected to
intensify following the indefinite closure of the Rafah and Karm Abu-Salem
border crossings.

Robert Satloff , Executive Director of the Washington Institute for Near East
Policy (WINEP), founded by AIPAC, presented the Zionist lobby’s reaction to the
Sinai operations and the expanding geography of Resistance. He offered the
following suggestions presented on their website and in Lobby publications:

“The US must undertake firm communication to Egypt’s Morsi that if he wants
international support to bolster his flagging economy, he cannot pander to the
worst instincts of Egyptian public opinion. Indeed, any serious effort to
prevent terrorist infiltration in Sinai requires coordination with Israel, and
this will not proceed in an environment of public vilification.”

“Second, US policymakers should reaffirm to the Egyptian military that
Washington views securing Sinai as an essential aspect of Egyptian-Israeli
peace, and that continued provision of substantial military aid, which has
exceeded 35 billion over the past three decades, is absolutely contingent on
the investment of adequate personnel and resources to do the security job.
Failure to direct the right people and resources to the peninsula will trigger
an overall reassessment of the US military assistance package, with an eye to
updating this 1980s-era relationship for the current environment.”

Satloft’s views are reflective of the vast disconnect between reality and
expectations of Zionist officials and their shills, over what the past 18
months has birthed in the Middle East with respect to Resistance to the
continuing colonization and ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

With the Sinai Peninsula returning to the era and culture of Resistance, the
liberation of Palestine draws ever nearer and more certain, perhaps sooner than
later.

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